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Police constable Ivan Jackson checks the speed of a passing boat along the River Cam, Cambridgeshire. 3rd May 1991
Lollipop Man, Teesside, 1976
Road Safety Team for North Yorkshire County Council are already planning for the next school term with the new EC correct School Crossing Patrol Signs, which no longer say CHILDREN
Mrs Northwood, a cleaner and volunteer fire watcher at St. Marlborough Street labour exchange, London, during the Second World War. 5th March 1944
Mrs Burrows makes useful gas mask cases for her daughters during the Second World War. Picture shows: Pamela and Beverly Burrows with their home made gas mask cases. 15th December 1939
From the top of a 55 foot fire watch tower In Rendlesham Forest near Woodbridge in East Anglia, 21 year old Miss Maude Middleditch does a dally 9 and half hours watch over millions of pine trees
Odeon cinema usherettes at Leicester Square, London, have their own fire fighting squad and do their fair share of fire watching. Here they are pictured checking a fire hose for ladders
Seamen safely rescued from the armed merchant cruiser Transylvania, pennant F56, sunk by torpedo fired the German U-boat U-56 off Malin Head, Ireland on 10th August 1940
Throughout the hours of darkness, WaF Flight mechanics are on duty servicing aircraft used for night training of pilots at a Flying Training Command Station in Scotland
Members of a field kitchen staff of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) taking cover in a trench as the alarm sounds for an air raid at Cromer, Norfolk during the Battle of Britain. August 1940
A Shelter Party in Bedminster, South of the city of Bristol. Somerset and Avon area. Bristol was Englands fifth most heavily bombed city, from 24th November 1940 to 15th May 1944
Air raid victims together in a hall or lounge during a local event or speech regarding the local situation. Bristol, England during The Blitz of world War Two. Somerset and Avon area
Air Raid Precaution training and demonstration taking place in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire during the Second World War, in preparation for German air raids on the town. 19th June 1939
Residents of Peel Street, Lincoln digging trenches as precautions against possible air raids in the city during the Second World War. 12th September 1939
Residents of Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln digging trenches as precautions against possible air raids in the city during the Second World War. 1940
Wooden boards erected outside the Lincoln Drill Hall on Broadgate street in Lincoln city centre, part of the precautions taken against any possible German air raids during the Second World War
Miss Sarah Churchill, the Prime Ministers daughter with Wing Commander Hodsoll, Inspector General of Civil Defence Services
Mr T. M. Watson, Chief Constable of Wallsall (wearing mac), leading his men in to the gas van during the Gas Drills at Walsall Fire station in preparation for a real attack. 29th October 1936
Additional filters for civilian respirators to increase their efficiency against smoke gases are now being fitted.Here is an Air Raid Precaution warden (ARP)
District Officer Coleman explaining the air raid precautions to the members of the Aston Hippodrome Company during their visit to the Central Fire Station in Birmingham
The self fitting ARP blind invented by Mr Geoffrey Mortimer, being placed into position on the windows of a residential house. The window on the right has already been blacked out
A little Italian boy, an evacuee from the Mount Cairo district in Lazio, Italy, did not like leaving his home and attempted to go back
The new indoor Table shelter announced by the Minister of Home Security in the House of Commons. 11th February 1941
Evacuation. The children happily play by the fireside with their new guardians in their new, hopefully safer, home away from London d East End, during World War Two
These people have taken heed of the Minister of Home Securitys warning to " prepare for winter raids". They have made a refuge room with a Morrison shelter in it
The new armoured cars with which a famous Cavalry Regiment has bean equipped and which have been aptly christened " Ironsides"
Tests of the new table-type indoor air raid shelter. A two-storey house was brought down by explosives to reproduce the collapse of such a house caused by a heavy bomb falling close by
The war Office announces that 500, 000 capes will be delivered for issue to the Home Guard by the end of the year. The cape, of knee length, is made of battle dress material
The new steel helmet for use by civilians as announced by Herbert Morrison in the House of Commons. February 1941
The new National Fire Service discs being prepared by the NFS for use where the local authority so requests by Fire Guard Block and street Fire Party leaders when summoning the National Fire Service
New Surrey training camp for part time fire fighters. New Parliamentary Secretary of Food talks to Fire Force cooks before taking up his new job
The new indoor Table shelter announced by the Minister of Home Security in the house. 11th February 1941
Tests carried out by the Research and Experimental department on a Flat-topped shelter Type T. This shelter was first tested by dropping a heavy block of concrete weighing 350 lbs from a height of 6
A bomb fell between two houses in a Merseyside town causing both of them to collapse. The Morrisons were in a ground floor room in each of them
Explaining the composition of an incendiary bomb to office girls of a city company who are taking part in a fire fighting course
Peter and Lionel Holland, now lodging with Mrs Lang of Yelverton Road, Anfield, Liverpool. Their father is a London fireman
Watched over by their new step mother in Brighton, Sussex, - these children evacuated from Hayter Road in Brixton, London say grace before enjoying some good home cooking. Saying Grace
Evacuation to Wales. August 1940. Many thousands of people, along with vital institutions and priceless historical objects, were evacuated to Wales for safety in the Second World War
Life on a Troopship bound for the Middle East. Evacuees from Crete who were taken abroad for the destination to South Africa, receiving instructions in the use of lifebelts. Circa 1940s
Green Cross Code man Dave Prowse gives some local youngsters a hand crossing the track and the drill is just the same. Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside. 7th July 1982
People crossing the motorway dangerously, in the north of England. 8th November 1974
Cantril Farm, Knowsley, Merseyside. Giant paving stones which have been left by workmen near an unfinished pathway are not only an attraction to little children but also a constant source of danger
Armlets Give You Safety: Flashing torches in the street, it was emphasised yesterday, is banned under black out regulations
Coffee Bar Cowboys. PC Dennis Self demonstrates riding techniques to (left to right) Gavin Banger 17, Tim Squibb 18, Michael Hunt 18 and John Barrow 17. 31st March 1965
A motor cyclist at speed on a section of the Sidcup by-pass, Kent, known as " Murder Mile" because of the number of accidents, many fatal, that have occurred there
Street scene, London Road, Riverhead, Kent. Circa 1915
Control by lights - a new baton with coloured electric lights for use by Paris police in the regulation of traffic. Point duty officers will flash signals to drivers. Paris, France. 14th August 1927
Lifeboat HQ at Poplar, water tests for life belts. July 1932
